Sword Sorcery

Chapter 6 Undercurrent
six days later
Late at night, outside the forest

chap!
A thick waist-length tree was chopped off by Aaron's sword. The sharp blade picked up sawdust like a woodcutter, and the sour and piercing sound of friction made people frown.

Afterwards, half of the trees that fell suddenly kicked up a cloud of flying dust, which attracted the birds and insects that had been resting in the forest to flee in panic.

Aaron flicked the cross sword casually, and there was a thrilling whistling sound of air, showing the user's amazingly powerful wrist strength and mastery of the long sword as if he were using his arms and fingers.

Aaron wiped off the hot sweat on his forehead, and kept swallowing heavy white air in his mouth, soothing his physical fatigue caused by performing a breathing method.At this moment, the white muscles all over his body turned red, and hot air was constantly gushing out from his body, which was the effect of the improved breathing method - exercising the muscles of the whole body, and there was no dead spot for exercising.

"Number zero, show me my current body data."

"Hey, the host's current physical attributes are as follows - host: Aaron Strength: 1.8 Sensitivity: 1.9 Constitution: 1.8"

A satisfied smile appeared on the corner of Aaron's mouth, "Are you already approaching the quasi-knight stage? It seems that after tonight's practice, and counting tomorrow night, I guess I can break through to the quasi-knight stage!"

In the past few days, under the pressure of survival hidden in the invisible, Aaron has been frantically practicing the "reverse cross breathing method", coupled with the constant search for plants that can enhance physical fitness, in just a few days, He even raised his overall physical fitness to the threshold of a quasi-knight!

If those ordinary city guards were to know, I'm afraid they would be completely shocked and go crazy——

A guy who has no basic foundation has approached the threshold of quasi-knights in just six days. Most people have practiced the knight's breathing method for five or six years, and they have not yet entered the stage of quasi-knights!
Moreover, Aaron is only in his early 14s this year, and he has a lot of youthful time to go to higher realms. His future prospects are simply limitless-not to mention being a formal knight, maybe even the realm above the knight can be touched. !
People like George, Simon, and Ella are all around 16-18 years old, and their physical attributes are also in the range of 1.5-1.7. If they want to reach about 1.9, which is close to a quasi-knight like Aaron, I am afraid it will take at least two or three years. Years will do!
Aaron secretly judged his current strength: "Now I am alone, and Simon and the others have absolutely no problem, but"

Aaron's eyes became a little darker because of the existence of that 'exception' - Bruce!

He didn't forget that when the zero chip scanned Bruce's body, the attribute data in the field of vision was clearly not within the normal range!
"So far, I haven't figured out how I was poisoned in the first place, but it is absolutely certain that someone wanted to harm me! But why did 'he' want to harm me?"

Aaron muttered to himself, speculating on the poisoner's motives: "What good is killing me? Or, if I die, will it help the poisoner's next actions?"

"Bruce has recently shown that he doesn't like me very much, but he has never shown his true strength in front of others. Everyone has always thought that he is at most still hovering before the threshold of a quasi-knight."

"That cheap adoptive father, Bert, suddenly disappeared in the village farthest from the castle with half a brigade of subordinates. It was thought that he was out hunting and died in the mouth of a monster."

"Viscount Steve will take turns sending guards out every week. There are a total of more than 200 city guards, at least half of them will be on duty outside, and the remaining half will be recuperating in the Viscount's castle. "

Suddenly, a flash of light flashed through Aaron's mind, giving him a vague idea of ​​a possibility——

"Hey, looks like things might be getting interesting"

Aaron murmured to himself inexplicably, seeing a ray of dawn looming on the eastern horizon, he hurriedly packed his things, left the forest quietly, and returned to his house without disturbing anyone.

The next morning

Aaron yawned and walked out of the room with a sleepy look. He walked to the dining table of the village chief's house with swaying steps, and sat down lazily, attracting Bruce, Simon and others. Frown more than.

This is not the first time.

Except for the first day, in the next five days, Aaron looked lazy and sleepy every morning, as if he hadn’t slept enough at all. He yawned while eating breakfast, and took pictures after eating. Slapped his ass and got up, went back to the room and continued to sleep.

Totally a real 'sloth'.

In fact, I can't blame Aaron, who told him to sneak out every night to practice knight breathing, and pick beneficial plants to take. Basically, he didn't sleep for most of the night, and the sleep time was naturally very lacking.

Even though the No. [-] chip is very powerful, it can assist Aaron to directly enter the state of 'deep sleep' and have a high-efficiency and high-quality sleep-in simple terms, it is the state of 'deep sleep' in the true sense.

However, "deep sleep" alone is not enough for human beings. In fact, "light sleep" is also indispensable, because "light sleep" performs brain self-rest to some extent that "deep sleep" does not have.

Even if Aaron has the assistance of No. 10 to enter the 'deep sleep' faster and reduce the excessive proportion of 'light sleep', he will sleep an hour or two less than the average person at most.Moreover, practicing knight breathing not only consumes a lot of physical energy, but also consumes a lot of energy, which has caused Aaron to sleep a few hours more than the average person recently—at least [-] hours of sleep before he can have enough sleep at night. Spiritually practice the Knight's Breath.

In this way, Aaron can only take advantage of the daytime to 'catch up on sleep', but in the eyes of several other people, it has become that Aaron goes back to sleep every day to 'return to the cage' - and still sleeps all day God's kind.

"Humph~!"

Ella couldn't help but snorted heavily when she saw Aaron's laziness sitting down. Although she didn't say much, with her disdainful expression, she clearly conveyed the hidden meaning——

'Useless trash'

Simon also had a bad expression on his face, and he said in a weird way: "Yo~, Master Yada finally woke up, I thought you would sleep so much that you couldn't even take care of breakfast! Oh, it turns out that you are quite 'punctual'~! "

This time he was completely tearing his skin apart, and he clearly showed his dissatisfaction. As usual, although everyone felt disdain for Aaron in their hearts, they would not say such things in person.

Obviously, Aaron's actions these days have touched their bottom line, making them completely lose confidence in this nominal 'team leader'.

However, Aaron didn't seem to hear the sarcasm in the words at all. He picked up the black bread and ate it with freshly squeezed milk. The original disgust was gone, and there was freshly squeezed milk to moisten his throat, and he swallowed it without any resistance at all.

Aaron still didn't respond to them.

Now even Bob couldn't stand it any longer, and couldn't help but sneered: "Oh, if I were you, I would resign now, why are you still in the city guard? After practicing the breathing method for so many years, I haven't even made any progress, I can beat three people like you by myself."

"Okay, stop talking nonsense with this free-eating moth, let him go." Bruce interjected, then got up and approached Aaron who was eating a big piece, and said coldly:
"You'd better eat more now, you won't have this chance in the future. When I go back after this mission, I will report to Commander Willy and ask you to be kicked out of the city guards. Our city guards don't need it." You are such a useless trash."

Willie is one of the other two official knights besides Viscount Steve. He has a high status in the Viscount's territory. He is the captain of the first battalion of the City Guard Army and is also responsible for commanding the entire City Guard Army. Li command.

Seeing this, George on the side pursed his lips, as if he wanted to say something, but under Bruce's cold gaze, he didn't say anything after all, let them go with a long sigh.

Simon, Bob, and Ella remained silent, but the expressions on their faces clearly conveyed the meaning of "agreement and support". It was stripped clean.

This is a real face-off. It seems that without Bert's protection, these people under his hands have completely disobeyed Aaron, and they only have to put on a posture and draw their swords at each other.

But Aaron still turned a deaf ear to this, and unhurriedly finished the black bread in his hand, took another big gulp of fresh milk, completely ignored the people who were staring at him coldly, got up slowly and walked back to his room— —

Pa~!

The door of the room was closed lightly, and Aaron continued to start the "sleep" career in an open manner, ignoring Bruce and others.

"Hmph~!" Bruce snorted coldly, and said with a hint of anger in his tone: "I'll let you have another proud day, and I'll let you get out of the city guards when you return to the castle tomorrow."

Ella also sneered and said, "How dare this trash put on airs in front of us? If it weren't for this Aaron who was still wearing the skin of the city guard team leader, I wouldn't be able to beat him for the time being. He thought he could be so proud Go on?"

As she spoke, Ella bulged her fists and snapped her fingers: "I guarantee that this kind of guy can beat him to the ground with one hand. When we return to the castle tomorrow, we will jointly apply to the commander. Clear this moth out of our team, so that he won't take up the team member every time, and if something happens, he will drag us back and get in the way."

"That's right. Let's join forces together and let this retarded waste get out of our group."

Simon happily took a bite of the black bread, but was stuck in his throat by a piece of dry bread. After coughing a few times, he swallowed the bread smoothly——

"Damn black bread, I really don't want to stay in this bird place for a moment."

Simon became annoyed and threw the remaining black bread on the ground. This move made him eat breakfast silently. For the village chief Macaulay who was pretending to be deaf and dumb in front of him, the movement of his hand was severely beaten, and the eyes in his eyes A trace of resentment flashed irresistibly.

However, this anger was randomly suppressed by Macaulay. He suppressed the anger in his heart and said in a deep voice: "Master Guard, this kind of black bread is already the best food in our place. I don't know how much it costs." How much work the villagers put into it, please don’t waste it.”

At the same time, a few poor children who were peeping from a distance saw the black bread that Simon threw on the ground, and immediately rushed forward, fighting and snatching each other, because it seemed to them to be an extremely delicious and high-grade bread. food.

"Huh~, the best food? Who knows if you old man has hidden some other good things?"

However, Simon didn't save Macaulay any face. In the past, their team went to other villages and even the more prosperous Duolong Town to perform garrisons. The worst thing they ate was delicious white bread. Where is this one ranked last in the territory The first small village, can the rough black bread offered be compared?
What's more, these garrison soldiers represent the lord - Viscount Steve. The managers of those villages dare not disrespect them at all, because they are the viscount's private soldiers, and they are the symbol of the viscount's right to govern the land.

"you!"

Macaulay couldn't help uttering a word, but when he saw Simon put his hand next to the cross sword on his waist, he couldn't help swallowing the words that came to his mouth, and continued to bow his head A 'deaf-mute'--

He finally managed to become a village head, but he didn't want to be replaced by the lord because of this matter. At least being a village head can indeed intercept a lot of private goods, such as some expensive macaroni.
As for offending the garrison soldiers for the sake of those villagers, and let the soldiers report themselves to the top?
Don't be kidding, it doesn't matter how many of these villagers die, as long as they don't get in their way.

Seeing Macaulay's performance, Simon nodded in satisfaction, a look of disdain flashed in his eyes, and he continued to eat and drink with his head down.

Bob at the side saw the poor children who were looting the black bread, seemed to be thinking, and quietly picked up two pieces of black bread and stuffed them into his arms.
In the distance, many onlookers watched the morning farce end. Most of the villagers had a flash of hatred in their eyes, but they could only turn around and leave, continuing to do their hard work.

If they don't work, they can't afford to pay the heavy monthly tax, and by the way, they will feed the garrison soldiers who will come to the village every week to show off their power and eat for free.

Only Bruce seemed to have noticed something, frowned and took a sip of fresh milk, and whispered in a voice that only he could hear: "Master Viscount's tax is indeed a bit heavy compared to the territories of other nobles."

late at night
Aaron quietly opened the door as always, but he just left the house, his brows were slightly frowned, and his gaze involuntarily swept to a house on the east side of the village.

The house was brightly lit, and it seemed that there was a faint sound coming from it.
(End of this chapter)